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A Discworld Novel
by Terry Pratchett
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by Jasper Fforde
Published Sep 2021
Read ReviewsA new stand-alone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Early Riser and the Thursday Next series.
by Marc-Uwe Kling
Published Jan 2020
Read ReviewsWhat if the perfect world wasn't built for you?
by Nick Harkaway
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsA blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction.
by Jasper Fforde
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsAn astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde: Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds.
by Ian Sansom
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsIsrael Armstrong - the hapless librarian who solves crimes and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland - suspects a teenage girl's disappearance has something to do with his lending her American Pastoral from the library's special "Unshelved" category. Now he has to find the lost teen before he's run out...
by Neil Gaiman
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsA mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.
by Jasper Fforde
Published Jul 2005
Read ReviewsCan Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop the hostile takeover of Hamlet by Orphelia? Can Swindon win the world croquet championship and thus prevent the end of the world? All this and more is revealed in this, the 4th volume in the Thursday Next series.
by J. Maarten Troost
Published Jun 2004
Read ReviewsThe laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year odyssey on the distant South Pacific island nation of Kiribatipossibly The Worst Place on Earth.
by David Sedaris
Published Jun 2001
Read ReviewsTells a most unconventional life story. "Original, acid, and wild" --said the Los Angeles Times. Written as 17 autobiographical essays.
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